Coat-sleeve holder



No. 623,058. Patented Apr. ll, I899.

H. WILLIAMS.

GOAT SLEEVE HOLDER.

(Application filed May 21,,1898.) (No Model.)

UNITED STATES-PATENT OFFICE.

IIATTIE WILLIAMS, OF HUDSON, NEWV YORK.

COAT-SLEEVE HOLDER;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,058, dated April 11, 1899.

I Application filed May 21, 1898. Serial No. 681,383. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HATTIE WILLIAMS, residing at Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coat- Sleeve Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to sleeve-holders, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap, and convenient article adapted to be applied to the sleeve of a coat, shirt, or other garment forthe purpose of facilitating the putting on of a coat, overcoat, or other outer garment.

The aim of the device is to prevent the sleeve of the undercoat from riding up upon the arm in putting on the overcoat or other outer garment.

The detailed objects and advantages of the invention will be fully pointed out in the course of the subjoined description.

The invention consists in an improved sleeve-holder embodying certain novel fea tures and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a complete sleeveholder constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the same.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both views.

The improved sleeve-holder contemplated in this invention comprises a clasp 1,.embodying opposing jaws 2, pivotally connected at 3 intermediate their ends, the jaws being preferably serrated or toothed, as indicated at 4,

and held normally together by means of a spring 5, interposed between the heel ends of the jaws, the said spring being preferably of leaf or flat form and having one end secured to one jaw, while the other end bears against the opposing jaw.

Secured in any convenient manner to one member of the clasp l is a tape or flexible strip 6, which may be either elastic or inelastic, according to preference. This strip may also be made of any suitable length, and the lower end thereof is looped, as indicated at 7, to receive a metal loop 8, connected to one end of a chain 9, having at its outer end a ball or head 10.

In operation the clasp 1 is engaged, for example, with the sleeve of a persons coat, after which the chain 9 is passed between two of the fingers of the hand or between the index=finger and the thumb, the ball 10, easily adaptable to the hand of any person without regard to size, being arranged upon the bottom side of the hand and forming a stop for obtaining the necessary hold upon the strip 6 without the necessity of doubling up the fist or grasping the device between the thumb and one or more of the fingers. The hand and arm are now thrust throughthe sleeve of the overcoat, and it will be apparent that the sleeve of the inner coat will be carried smoothly through the sleeve of the outer coat,

. as it is firmly grasped by the clasp l and the of the person by Letters Patent, is

A sleeve-holder comprising a clasp for en gaging the sleeve, a flexible strip connected at one end to said clasp, a chain connected to the other end of the flexible strip, and a ball secured to the outer end of the chain, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HATTIE WILLIAMS.

IVitnesses:

PHILIP L. HAM, HERBERT SrIoKLEs. 

